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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pocatello, ID

June 3, 2004Bingham County, Power County, Idaho

NWS Pocatello, ID issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2004, 6:23 PM MDT for Bingham County, Power County, Idaho. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2004, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Pocatello, ID
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bingham County, ID, Power County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 271 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPIH 040023
SVRPIH
IDC011-077-040115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
622 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BINGHAM COUNTY IN IDAHO
  NORTHWESTERN POWER COUNTY IN IDAHO

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 618 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...OR
  ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF AMERICAN FALLS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TABER BY 715 PM MDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4301 11319 4290 11300 4320 11235 4342 11270

$$

MEYER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
310 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING A BROAD FLAT RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL
STATES WITH A DEEP LOW POSITIONED OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA.  TWO
DISTURBANCES WERE EVIDENT IN WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY EJECTING
FROM LOW INTO/ACROSS WESTERN STATES.  FIRST WEAKER WAVE WAS LIFTING
NE THROUGH SRN IDAHO SPARKING SOME HIGH BASED CONVECTION WHILE
SECOND STRONGER WAVE WAS PUSHING THROUGH NRN CALIFORNIA.  FIRST WAVE
TO EXIT FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING SUSTAINING SOME WEAK
CONVECTIONS.  SECOND WAVE EXPECTED TO REACH SW IDAHO LATE TONIGHT
(06-12Z) LIFTING NE THROUGH REGION FRIDAY (AVN ABOUT 6HRS SLOWER
WITH PROGRESSION) SUSTAINING CONVECTION OVER REGION LATE TONIGHT
AND THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY.  NEGATIVE TILT UPPER TROUGH SWINGS
THROUGH PACIFIC NW STATES SATURDAY AS MAIN LOW APPROACHES BC COAST.
GOOD PATTERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND BEST INSTABILITY AND DYNAMICS
PLACE THAT POTENTIAL THREAT IN ERN WASHINGTON. WILL CONTINUE WITH
SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION ACROSS NRN MOUNTAIN ZONES AS
TROUGH BRUSHES REGION.  LOW CONTINUES TO MIGRATE ESE SUNDAY AND
MONDAY WITH BRUNT OF PRECIPITATION FALLING OVER NRN IDAHO/MONTANA
AS WINDY CONDITIONS SPREAD ACROSS SRN IDAHO. THUS HAVE LIMITED
PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL TO NRN ZONES AND BUMPED WINDS UPWARD SUNDAY
AS DRY SURFACE FRONT SLIPS THROUGH REGION ALONG WITH 110KT 300MB
JET. UPPER LOW GRADUALLY LIFTS NE INTO CNTRL CANADA MONDAY/TUESDAY
OF NEXT WEEK AS SECONDARY SHORT-WAVE ENERGY DIGS SE INTO NEVADA WITH
A WEAK HANG-BACK LOW SPINNING UP OVER SW IDAHO.  LOW EVENTUALLY
LIFTS NE ACROSS FORECAST AREA LATE WEDNESDAY AS A DRY WEST FLOW AND
WARMER TEMPERATURES RETURN TO THE REGION. HUSTON
&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 5:00 AM MDT, 13 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
500 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

IDZ017>023-031-032-041200-
EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS-
UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-
SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-
500 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE
WEATHER HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pocatello, ID issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bannock, Power	29 min
Jun 3, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bingham, Bonneville	58 min
Jun 3, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bannock, Power	25 min
Jun 3, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison	43 min
Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PIH	Bonneville	20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.